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...least have come increasingly to distrust the beautifully precise examination scores--drawn out to a thousandth of a per cent--which I think do violence to the complexity of knowledge and the mystery of character," wrote President Jordan in 1943. Miss Ballou, if she did not wholly share his skepticism, put it partially into practice. On the College Boards, she emphasized, "We do not expect the same performance from all candidates ... we 'think down' the scores of those girls whose schools have primed them for this variety of test-taking. Conversely, we 'think up' the results achieved by girls...
Judge Ganey's "shocking indictment of American free enterprise" caps three decades of being brainwashed with distrust of the profit incentive in our economy. With this indictment in hand, and with our politically nurtured tunnel vision, we can now clearly see business profit standing alone-the sole source of the burden we bear as the price of freedom. A wide-angled view would include the collusive abuse of power and trust in every aspect of our existence where the hand of man can control, and the indictment would perforce become one of the whole idea that man should...
...question is not whether Council members have the right to express their own opinions when representing Harvard outside of Cambridge: obviously they do. But the fact remains that when they assert their beliefs too vigorously, their views are likely to be quoted and widely disseminated, breeding distrust and resentment among their constituencies in Cambridge, and misrepresenting the Council as an organization...
Most fads are short-lived and harmless. Even the worst usually harms only a relatively few susceptible people. But fads encourage distrust of doctors and self-diagnosis. In such an atmosphere of skepticism, it is difficult for a physician to convince a patient who feels fine that he must give up something he likes, to preserve his health. Yet, says Dr. Keys, that is exactly what many Americans should do. The average blood cholesterol count among middle-aged (40-60) U.S. men, says Keys, is an uncomfortable 240. "People should know the facts," he says. "Then if they want...
These qualms would not have embarrassed the Founding Fathers, who had a healthy 18th century distrust of democracy, and they should not bother Kennedy's supporters. Those liberals who advocate reform of the college in the name of democracy are preaching an unreal politics, for liberal reform has an investment in the present electoral apparatus. Under the system as it stands, counting each state's vote as a bloc favors the states with large urban populations and gives decisive influence to minority groups within these states. Anyone who doubts this can look at the enormous (and correct) importance attached...